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Siege of Kinsale, 1690
PLAN DE / LATTAQUE DES / FORTS DE / KINSALE
1690 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:9,000 approx. | RCIN 724049
This map shows the two forts that guarded the town of Kinsale. Marlborough had not realised that the newer Fort Charles (Le nouveais Fort), was equipped with 200 bronze guns mounted on the five bastions which can be seen on the map. Marlborough's first assault was on the old fort, across the river. When this was captured, Marlborough's engineers dug trenches towards Fort Charles and the combined British and Danish forces used cannon (positioned in the ‘Batterie’) and mortars (‘Batterie des Bombes’) to bombard the fort into submission.
For further reading, see:
S.S. Webb, Lord Churchill’s coup: the Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution reconsidered, Syracuse, 1998, pp.243-4.
R. Holmes, Marlborough, England's fragile genius, London, 2008, pp.169-70.
Condition: eight fold lines; formerly folded into 11.1 x 9.8 cm; paper repair to tear bottom centre; small tears to right edge. Verso: heavy surface dirt along outer fold lines.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys in shield, below a crown; the letters WR suspended by a ‘4’ below; countermark: the letters I H S [with a cross on top of the H], the letters RC below
Mark, stamped: 36
Condition: eight fold lines; formerly folded into 11.1 x 9.8 cm; paper repair to tear bottom centre; small tears to right edge. Verso: heavy surface dirt along outer fold lines
Scale: 1:9,000 approx. Scale bar: [34 mm =] 1000 Foot.
38.6 x 52.1 cm (neatline)
39.6 x 47.4 cm (image)
43.9 x 57.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN DE / LATTAQUE DES / FORTS DE / KINSALE [bottom right, in cartouche representing draped, fringed material]
Annotations:
George III heading: Kinsale 1690.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [left of centre, at top of outer folded panel, ink:] plan du Siege de Kinsal; [below this ink title, black pencil:] 109; [bottom, right of centre, black pencil:] IV176-1
George III catalogue entry:
Kinsale Plan dessiné de l’Attaque des Forts de Kinsale en 1690.
Subject(s)
Kinsale, Munster, Ireland (51°42ʹ27ʺN 08°31ʹ50ʺW)
Bibliographic reference(s)
R. Holmes, Marlborough, England's fragile genius, London 2008, pp. 169-70
Lord Churchill’s coup: the Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution reconsidered, Syracuse 1998, pp. 243-4
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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